This is a timeline of category theory and related mathematics. Its scope ('related mathematics') is taken as:
- Categories of abstract algebraic structures including representation theory and universal algebra;
- Homological algebra;
- Homotopical algebra;
- Topology using categories, including algebraic topology, categorical topology, quantum topology, low dimensional topology;
- Categorical logic and set theory in the categorical context such as algebraic set theory;
- Foundations of mathematics building on categories, for instance topos theory;
- Abstract geometry, including algebraic geometry, categorical noncommutative geometry, etc.
- Quantization related to category theory, in particular categorical quantization;
- Categorical physics relevant for mathematics.
In this article and in category theory in general ∞ = ω.
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